February is Black History Month and on the heels of the recent presidential election, The South Shore Press will be listening to the points of view of Black Conservatives and Republicans that are often overlooked, and even ridiculed, by the mainstream press.
President Donald Trump won more Black votes than any Republican candidate in nearly 50 years. Trump’s support among Black men under 45 almost doubled compared to 2020, with about 30% in this age group voting for him. In total, 25 percent of Black men voted for Trump, which was up by several points from the 2020 election.
Lew Mitchell, a member of the Republican Party attending the NYS Conservative Party annual conference, spoke about what he thinks about the concept that, and pressure for, Black people to think and vote a certain (approved) way.
“I believe that the socialist power is very concerned with manipulating Black people into self-destruction - not only self-destruction but a nation-destroying configuration, said Mitchell.”
Black and brown voters have been taken for granted by the Democrat Party for a long time. Assumptions that the Black community is a monolith in its thinking run strong and, as it turns out, is also wrong.
“There’s definitely a program to manipulate Black people into a political configuration that's destructive to the nation-state and destructive to the Black people. The Socialist program is about impoverishing Black people,” Mitchel said. “There's also a propaganda aspect. Greenwashing is very sophisticated, there's a lot of money behind it, and there's a lot of payoffs for those in the Black community that will go along with it for the paycheck.”
During this last election, when Democrats were beginning to worry about the Black vote and Black men in particular, they sent former president Barack Obama out to scold Black men into voting for Kamala Harris.
At an event, Obama essentially said that Black men who were not voting for Harris were misogynists, “And you are thinking about sitting out?” he said. “Part of it makes me think — and I'm speaking to men directly — part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren't feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you're coming up with other alternatives, and other reasons for that.”
More Black voters found Trump attractive this time around. “President Trump is a very down-to-earth honest person, he's not a politician and people can see that people recognize that he's not a scripted politician,” said Mitchell about why some Black voters, especially Black men, left the Democrats behind and voted for Trump.
“The Democrat regime under Biden was so egregious. It's obvious to anybody who's not ideologically stuck in a corner to see the destruction in the last four years alone. The destruction is more visible than it's ever been," said Mitchell.
The media is a big part of feeding bias and sometimes outright false information to voters. Mitchell weighed in about how new media, podcasts, and younger Black influencers in media and music are becoming a key element in reaching people.
“The media demonization of Trump didn’t stick, some of it sticks, but it didn’t stick the way it normally does. There is an awakening, it's not what it should be, but there is a slow awakening that there is a script that's being fed to Black people, and it's becoming more obvious. We're trying to accelerate the awakening.”